Azure Cloud

Azure Cloud is a Microsoft owned computing platform and a leader in providing cloud computing solutions. Azure was first initiated in February 2010. It offers an amazing range of features and functions that help IT professionals to build and manage cross-platform mobile and web applications.

Azure offers an amazing variety of cloud-based services in various domains such as

This includes virtual machines, Cloud services to build a cloud-based APIs and applications, VM scale sets, Azure Batch, Service Fabric.

Azure offers a range of tools that are ideally suited for containers that support Azure Kubernetes service (AKS), Docker Swarm, etc.

Network:

There is a range of networking tools that can be linked to an on-premise facility like load balancers, content delivery networks, virtual private networks, applications gateways, traffic manager, Azure DNS for domain hosting, network watcher monitoring, etc.

Storage:

Azure storage includes Azure Blobs useful for text and binary data, Azure Files for cloud or in-house deployments, Azure Queues the Messaging store, and Azure Tables the NoSQL table for schemaless storage.